Measuring Crime
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- Created on: 20-04-16 19:15
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- Measuring Crime
- Official Stats
- Reported and recorded
- Dark Figure of Crime
- unreported or unrecorded crimes due to: no victim; victim being scared; unaware, e.g. fraud; lack of evidence e.t.c
- Dowds Study: shows difference in crimes which are reported. one area recorded/reported crime under £10 in value, however another area did not. Showing that crime stats can easily be distorted.
- Self Report
- unreliable; bias; exaggerated
- Victim Report
- telescoping may occur (thinking it happened 1yr ago, when actually it happened 5yrs ago)
- Official Stats
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